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“A lot of the issues were to do with management and stuff that pitted me and Axl against each other”: Slash on his return to Guns N’ Roses, changing up the Sweet Child O’ Mine solo, and what needs to happen for a new GNR album

Slash is the luckiest man in rock. Quitting GNR in ’96 when they were on top, he returned in ’16 and hasn't looked back. Here he talks about the past, present, and what the future might hold...

Guitar World

Download Festival lineup revealed with Limp Bizkit and more as headliners

Limp Bizkit will headlined Download Festival for the first time in 2026.

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Download Festival 2026: Keanu Reeves and Cypress Hill join Limp Bizkit, Guns N’ Roses and Linkin Park in line-up

The John Wick and Matrix actor will perform with his band Dogstar at the UK’s biggest rock and metal event, joining hip-hop heavyweights Cypress Hill and a trio of blockbuster headliners

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Slash wasn't a fan of Guns N' Roses classic Sweet Child O' Mine initially

Guns N' Roses rocker Slash has revealed that he wasn't struck on the group's popular anthem Sweet Child O' Mine initially.

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"It got so blown out of proportion." Slash on Axl's latest outburst and "killer" new Guns N' Roses drummer Isaac Carpenter

New Guns N' Roses drummer Isaac Carpenter not to blame for Axl Rose's latest onstage meltdown

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"I don't think it would be the right environment for a proper rock and roll show." Guns N' Roses man Slash on Las Vegas Sphere

A Guns N' Roses residency at Las Vegas' groundbreaking Sphere venue seems unlikely

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Guns N' Roses issue statement on Axl Rose's outbursts at recent gig

Guns N' Roses insist Axl Rose has no issues with new drummer Isaac Carpenter after he took his frustration out on his drum kit.

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Axl Rose kicks new drummer Isaac Carpenter's drum kit and storms off stage at Argentina gig

Axl Rose was visibly erratic during the opening number of Guns N' Roses' Argentina concert.

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Watch Axl Rose kick drumkit and fling microphone before storming offstage in Argentina

Angry Axl is back!

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“He was my favorite guitarist I played with, besides Slash, and was the one I felt most unified with”: Richard Fortus on how he’s held down the Guns N’ Roses gig – and his other favorite GNR guitarist

Fortus reveals who his favorite co-guitarists have been, and the man whose parts he'll never change

Guitar World

“To me, we were like a Motörhead-type hard rock band, so any kind of ballads were sort of uncongressed”: Sweet Child O’ Mine is Guns N' Roses' most iconic song, but Slash originally wasn't a fan

The guitar slinger has previously dismissed claims that the iconic riff was crafted as a warm-up exercise

Guitar World

Slash provides update on Guns N' Roses album: 'It's coming'

Slash says Guns N' Roses have tonnes of new material ready for an album.

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The story of every metal album to hit number one in the UK

From Iron Maiden to Sleep Token, here's every single time metal topped the album charts in the UK

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“Our lawyer said, ‘You need a letter from an industry expert.’ So I texted Slash”: Chris Buck explains how the Guns N’ Roses guitar hero came to the aid of Cardinal Black on their first US headline tour

Cardinal Black hit a hurdle when they needed to acquire visas for their maiden North American tour. Luckily, Buck knew who to call on

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“It’s Sharon’s song. One of her favourites. Lemmy wrote it with the two of us in mind”: Just before he died, Ozzy Osbourne revealed the song that made him cry during the Back To The Beginning gig

All the emotion came out during Ozzy’s solo set at Back To The Beginning

Guitar World

“In the time I was involved in attempting to play his parts, never really could I have captured the essence of him”: Buckethead reflects on his time in Guns N’ Roses as Slash pays tribute to the elusive virtuoso

The man with the bucket on his head and magic in his fingers says an emotional thank you to Slash after the rock icon described his guitar playing as “next level”

Guitar World

“It was my first cover. I knew Slash would use a great vintage Les Paul, so Ihad to up my game”: Gilby Clarke on the story behind his modded ’69 Fender Telecaster, immortalized on the cover of Guitar World

It was the Nov 1992 issue. Guns N' Roses were officially and unofficially the biggest – and still most dangerous – band in the world, and its guitarists, Slash and Gilby Clarke was on the cover. Slash had done this before. Clarke? It was all new...

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Guns N' Roses' Axl Rose announces graphic novel

Axl Rose has created a new graphic novel in which he self-stars as a half-human, half-robot.

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"It's Axl like you've never seen him before, on the front lines of a battle for humanity's future": Introducing Axl Rose: Half-human, half-robot comic book hero

Join Axl Rose as he becomes entwined in a deadly conspiracy

Guitar World

"Back then, I was pretty much a nobody, so Gibson sold it to me at cost!" Slash's 5 most iconic guitars, in his own words

Slash talks through his most significant guitars in his own words – plus we tell you how to nail his iconic tone at home at various price points

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"I've been waiting seven years": Zak Starkey implores Axl Rose to return master tape he says could raise $2m for teenage cancer charity

"C'mon, bro"

MusicRadar

"Sometimes you get to the double time in Paradise City and think, ‘Man, I’ve got to play this now!?’”: How drummer Frank Ferrer powered Guns N’ Roses for 19 years

And why You Could Be Mine was his favourite song to play

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m not a big CGI guy’: Guns N’ Roses axeman Slash on remaking trash classic Deathstalker

The rock star has loved the cult film ever since he worked in a video shop. As his ‘requel’ gets its world premiere, he talks Hammer horror, soundtrack heaven – and how his dad got him into Edgar Allan Poe

Louder

This video of pop superstar Sabrina Carpenter, aged 10, cosplaying Axl Rose to cover Guns N' Roses classic Sweet Child O' Mine is the cutest thing you'll see online this week

10-year-old Sabrina Carpenter channelling Axl Rose was just adorable

Metal Hammer

I just spent four days at the muddiest metal festival on the planet - here's why I'm desperate to go back

Thousands of fans, hundreds of bands and tonnes of mud: but Wacken is still the best metal festival around

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